Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology.
Scientists have found that sugar is highly addictive and stimulates the same pleasure centers of the brain as cocaine or heroin. A sugar addiction can lead to health problems as well as the emotional and psychological pain of living with an addiction. Just like those hard-core drugs, getting off sugar leads to withdrawal and cravings, requiring an actual sugar detox process to wean off.
We’ve heard for years about the dangers of eating too much fat or salt. But there have never been recommended limits for sugar on Canadian food labels, despite emerging research that suggests the sweet stuff may be making more of us fat and sick.
"These studies challenge the
long-standing dogma that "a calorie is just a calorie" and suggest that the metabolic effects of food may matter as much as its energy content. The discovery that
fructose-mediated generation of uric acid may have a causal role in diabetes and obesity provides new insights into pathogenesis and therapies for this important disease".
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